DOUBLE-EDGED Synonyms: 138 Similar and Opposite Words

double-edged

adjective

ˌdə-bəl-ˈejd

as in dual

consisting of two members or parts that are usually joined the double-edged purpose of the sales promotion is to clear out existing stock and to attract new customers

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as in ambiguous

having an often intentionally veiled or uncertain meaning her double-edged remark that she hoped that I ultimately got what I deserved

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Recent Examples of double-edged There, too, his advocacy is double-edged. —

Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 23 Mar. 2026 Given the fact that more than 20 of her rapists are still roaming free, this fame may be double-edged. —

Gaby Wood, Vogue, 21 Feb. 2026 Seneca’s and Cicero’s invocations of humanitas were as double-edged as our own talk of the humanities, pointing at once to a body of knowledge and to a moral choice that learning might inspire. —

Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2025 However, trust is double-edged. —

Julian Hayes Ii, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025 Putin boasts of Russia’s record-low 2.3% unemployment rate, but this sword is double-edged. —

Christian Edwards, CNN, 26 Jan. 2025 For Eisenberg’s film, the decision is double-edged: from the perspective of the characters, exceptional demands are placed on the dialogue to make their past come to life, but the dialogue isn’t sufficiently rich or imaginative to meet the challenge. —

Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2024 Usually double-edged, the weapons were occasionally decorated with engraved patterns. —

Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Mar. 2024 Among artists and intellectuals, technology has always been double-edged, utopian and dystopian. —

Jed Perl, The New York Review of Books, 27 Apr. 2023

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Neither their dual for the lead nor their fight over second place after Norris swept to the lead, featured any contact among the several position switches.

— David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 10 May 2026
In this case, the Chinese team used something called a dual-atom catalyst (DAC).

— Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 10 May 2026